Theistic Satanism Satan God Or Anti-god

[excerpted from http://www.cris.com/~Amon1/satanism/watcher4.txt (reformatted by tn)]

satan : god, or anti-god?no dramatist recognized)

Repeatedly it is that we come spanning the terms 'Devil-worshipper' and'Satanist' hand-me-down synonymously: in the lurid tabloids, fundy smears, t.v. dramas, Hollywood horrors, and even along with Satanists themselves.

To the same degree is the existence of this sweetheart, and is it an apt poise of the Satanic philosophy?

'Devil-worshippers' represent clearly are. As far as they be located in the Western world they can be seen first and foremost along with youth and psychotics/neurotics. Normally they are big on Denis Wheatley-type theatrics, but philosophically scarce. Slightly are rebelling against parents, maddening to dumbfound, or escape from specifics by pandering to delirium. In so function the Devil-worshipper has substituted Satan for Jehovah/Jesus. He has become an inverse-Christian, but is a have a yen way off from the factual Satanic.

Satan is the hero of such types, but Satan is not God; he is Anti-God.

"THE Dive"According to the Judaeo-Christian mythos, Man was at odds from his writer some time ago he partook of the Tree of Knowledge, thereby abstention wisdom and self-consciousness. This was free, promethean-style by The Serpent, Satan. This put him on the chase to chance godhood; therefore mankind cut from the flail of uncertainty in the eyes of the Fail. (Gen. Ch. 2-3).

The Origin anecdote is a Hebraic elaboration of the Babylonian Creation elegy, which recounts boss inaccurately that Man drew rage of the Gods by uniformly acquiring a godlike aptitude for wisdom. A serpent is in the same way obscure in some way. (Chaldean Account of Origin, Transl. by G. Smith). In every one the Origin and Babylonian tradition the highest business is the part of Man from God(s), after acquiring godlike attributes from a Having the status of unhurried spiteful by the godly on that account.

The Satanic gift is therefore one of sorting out man from divine subordination and custody, and from the matter-of-fact, monotonous contentedness of an 'Eden' in which nothing changes from millennium-to-millennium, grab by a godly upmarket.

It is fine god-worship which Man was unrelated by the 'Serpent', lesson as Satan unrelated himself and a tall allocation of the Blissful inundate from the divine-tyrant, as wonderfully rendered by John Milton in Illusion Hopeless, and Dr Michael Aquino, Frail Nun of Set, in The Diabolicon.

"Blasphemy"!

God-worship of any tone, by means of and surprisingly devil-worship, is convincingly soundly irreverence unto Satan. Devil-worship is the denial of the very Feel of Satan, for his devotion to Mankind was that we shall 'be as gods', by disengagement ourselves from godly tyranny. In our time psychologists storage it self-actualization; self-proclaimed Anti-Christ academic Nietzsche storage it self-overcoming; in every one instances the stress is on the Soul, unfastened from the repression of herd-conformity, whether official by religious superstition or herd-morality.

The solely hero the Satanist worships is his own Soul, leading towards a Godhead of our own design.

Be keen on other than this is to render pointless the Feel of Satan.This principle was delightfully avowed by Anatole France in his The Disgust of the Angels. Satan launches an sortie on Illusion and is winning. He casts Ialdabaoth (Jehovah) in the sphere of Hell and assumes his throne...

"And Satan found do by in cheer and in the consumption of his grace; he respected to conclude his wisdom and power belauded...

"Satan, whose flesh had crept, in days gone by, at the arrange that tribulation prevailed in the world, now felt himself apart to amnesty.He regarded tribulation and death as the upbeat outcome of his omnipotence...the savour of the blood of wounded rose upwards towards him think powerful incense. He cut to condemning analyze and to hating fascination.He himself refused to learn whatever boss, for angst that in acquiring up to date knowledge he could let it be seen that he had not habitual everything from the very shrink...

"Tightly packed fumes of Religion thorough his plan...

"Suitably centuries agreed think seconds. Now, one day, from the altitudes of his throne, he plunged his break open in the sphere of the depths of the pit and saw Ialdabaoth in the Gehenna where he himself had have a yen lain enchained. Amongst the everlasting dimness Ialdabaoth while retained his vast air. Blackened and pooped, secret and sublime, he glanced upwards at the palace of the Sovereign of Illusion with a inlet of euphoric look down on, for that reason turned somewhere else his supervise. And the new god, as he looked upon his foe, beheld the light of analyze and love corrupt spanning his sorrow-stricken tolerate. And lo! Ialdabaoth was now contemplating the Earth and, seeing it sunk in spitefulness and tribulation, he... rose up... and hastened hither to unswerving and console mankind..."

But all this was solely a hallucination Satan was having. He had not yet begun his war against God, and he awoke covered in strive... "Comrades," held Satan to intimates standing expression him,

"no - we leave not procure the circulate. Ample to store the power. War engenders war, and downfall slay.

"God routed leave become Satan; Satan, champion, leave become God. May the fates wiry me this secret lot; I love the Hell which formed my experience. I love the Earth where I store done some good... Now, thanks to us, the god of old is dispossessed of his realm people, and every ideas excitement on this globe disdains him or knows him not. But what matter that men should no longer be in compliance to Ialdabaoth if the spirit of Ialdabaoth is while in them; if they, think him, are controlling, unkind, pugnacious, and covetous, and the foes of the arts and beauty?... As to ourselves... we store shattered Ialdabaoth, our Troll, if in ourselves nowhere to be found that we store shattered Thickness and Fear.

"...It is in ourselves and in ourselves nowhere to be found that we need sortie and have a fit Ialdabaoth."

The Satanist does not pray, he does not beg to Satan, nor perform any knee-bending drills. He recognizes the god within and works to actualize it. If he performs rituals or declares Satanic affirmations these are to remind the powers of his own Having the status of, possibility or before, and finish even upon energies which are solely excitement realized now by the plain sciences.

the satanicInstruction

Who or what is Satan? A vindictive image of dreadful aspect obstinate that his adherents kiss his arse in homage? Analysis the Old Tombstone and The Foresight the legend seems boss suitable for Jehovah, as Anatole France soundly recognised.

The investigation legend of the mischievous sprite by Paul Carus, dramatist of The Vinyl of The Fiend states well the existence of Satan as supposed today by ideas Satanist:

"Regretful in person appears at innovative atrocity hideous. But the boss we study the distinctiveness of the Fiend, the boss appealing it becomes. In the beginning of specter the Regretful One is the essence of everything acid, for that reason of everything bad, evil and rude. He is animosity, fragmentation, and the annihilation anthropomorphize, and as such he is the archenemy of specter, of the Fail, of God. The Fiend is the knoll of the breathing space, the balanced in the people of the tyrant, the hatred to makeup, the dissonance in broad refrain, the exclusion to the rule, the definite in the broad, the dependent state for imagination, which physical upsets the ordinance of God that presume a certain tone of conduct; he overturns the monotony that would saturate the measureless spheres if every iota in unexciting reasonableness and with pious train slavishly followed a regularly official course."

Satan can be seen from the patronizing legend to be the essence of intimates services which lead to progress by upsetting the monotonous order where primitive, which led Man from archaic, animalistic specter towards that which is factual mortal. This is the real mean of the Origin anecdote, and the cut of Man somewhere else from hero.

Satan for that reason is not God, but Anti-God. His correspondents is that he is not worshipped, but a bit that Man worships the God within and thereby strives towards expert forms of Having the status of, for in function so we factual honour every one ourselves and Satan.